The CFPS Barbell Club is an affiliated Olympic Weightlifting NZ club, allowing our athletes to participate in OWNZ sanctioned events. Barbell Club training sessions are a mixture of Olympic Lifting and Power Lifting, with a focus on correct technique and lifting progressively heavier weights. The sessions are kept to a small number so that each member can set up on their own platform and work individually within the class structure.

As weightlifting is an important component of CrossFit we encourage our athletes to include Barbell Club sessions in their training programme as it provides them with the environment to make significant gains in their strength and conditioning.

For those athletes who are focused solely on weightlifting training, CFPS works closely with Dr Adam Storey (2014 Commonwealth Games Olympic Lifting Coach), and John Strachan (World, Commonwealth, Oceania and National Powerlifter) with workshops and programming aimed at meeting their specific competition goals.

A number of our athletes (from teens to masters) are highly successful weightlifters, who compete on a national and international level: with NZ national record holders among them.